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JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM
卷 27, 期 12, 页码 1965-1974出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jcbfm.9600488
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Alzheimer's disease; cluster analysis; PK11195; reference region; reference tissue; tracer kinetic modelling
Inflammation in Alzheimer's disease (AD) may be assessed using (R)-[C-11]PK11195 and positron emission tomography. Data can be analyzed using the simplified reference tissue model, provided a suitable reference region is available. This study evaluates various reference regions for analyzing (R)-[C-11] PK11195 scans in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and probable AD. Healthy subjects (n = 10, 30 +/- 10 years and n = 10, 70 +/- 6 years) and patients with MCI (n = 10, 7466 years) and probable AD (n= 9, 71 +/- 6 years) were included. Subjects underwent a dynamic three-dimensional (R)-[C-11] PK11195 scan including arterial sampling. Gray matter, white matter, total cerebellum and cerebrum, and cluster analysis were evaluated as reference regions. Both plasma input binding potentials of these reference regions (BPPLASMA) and corresponding reference region input binding potentials of a target region (BPSRTM) were evaluated. Simulations were performed to assess cluster analysis performance at 5% to 15% coefficient of variation noise levels. Reasonable correlations for BPPLASMA (R-2 = 0.52 to 0.94) and BPSRTM (R-2 = 0.59 to 0.76) were observed between results using anatomic regions and cluster analysis. For cerebellum white matter, cerebrum white matter, and total cerebrum a considerable number of unrealistic BPSRTM values were observed. Cluster analysis did not extract a valid reference region in 10% of the scans. Simulations showed that potentially cluster analysis suffers from negative bias in BPPLASMA. Most anatomic regions outperformed cluster analysis in terms of absence of both scan rejection and bias. Total cerebellum is the optimal reference region in this patient category.
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